In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Humpty Dumpty autocratically declares that “When I use a word, it means what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.” But, says Alice: “The question is whether you can make words mean so many different things.” Humpty retorts: “The question is which is to be master – that’s all.” Now comes Trumpty Dumpty, asserting that he and his government rethinkers are our linguistic masters. For starters, they […]
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